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Holiday Geek Gift Guide 2011: Specialty Items
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Welcome to the Geeks of Doom Holiday Gift Guide 2011: Specialty Items edition!

This is your place for a few “outside the box” gift ideas for the geeks in your life who have just about everything you were thinking about getting them. Whether it be plush toys or board games, collectibles, household items, and even edibles, you’ll find it here to help guide you toward your ultimate goal: happy, glowing geek eyes when Christmas morn’ arrives.

If something is said to be unavailable, you can usually find it available elsewhere online. Or you can wait, it’s assumed that more should be available soon.

Be sure to continue on below now to check out the 2011 Specialty Gifts guide now!

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‘Star Wars’ Gold Heart Pins Being Sold To Benefit Children’s Charity
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In conjunction with the upcoming 3D re-release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Lucasfilm Ltd. and 20th Century Fox are teaming up with Variety the Children’s Charity to create a Star Wars-themed pin for their annual Gold Heart Pin Campaign. Every year since 1991, Variety has worked with a major Hollywood studio to sell special pins based on a certain film or character in theaters across the United States in order to raise money to provide much-needed assistance to disabled and disadvantaged children around the world.

This year, the Gold Heart Pin will feature the Star Wars franchise’s lovable droid duo C-3PO and R2-D2. The pin will be sold in over 1,000 theaters from November 2011 until April 2012 and will be priced at $3.00.

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Must Watch: Baby Has Deep Conversation With ‘Star Wars’ Droid R2-D2
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Finally, the little droid that could from the Star Wars trilogy, R2-D2, has found itself a new buddy with whom he can converse.

A video is making its way around the web that shows an R2-D2 with working lights and sounds that catches the attention of a baby and leads to what you’ll see is quite the deep little conversation.

The only real question here is what exactly these two might be talking about. Who out there is fluent in both gibberish and droid that can translate?

You can check out the video by heading on over to the other side now!

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New Zealand Mint Offering Special Series Of Legal Tender ‘Star Wars’ Coins
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The New Zealand Mint is set to offer a very special new set of coins featuring the likes of some of your favorite characters from George Lucas‘s classic Star Wars series.

The first series includes eight 1oz 999 silver coins in two separate sets. The first comes in a Darth Vader helmet case (that even makes the iconic villain’s breathing sound when you open it), and features Vader, Emperor Palpatine, a Stormtrooper, and the Death Star. The second comes in a Millennium Falcon case (which makes the “jump to light speed” sound when opened), and features the dynamic duos of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, R2-D2 and C-3PO, and Han Solo and Chewbacca.

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Geek Gear: Star Wars – Doctor Who Shirt ‘R2D WHO and CYB3R PO’
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The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is a mash-up of Doctor Who and Star Wars called “R2D WHO and CYB3R PO” by artist Captain_RibMan.

The sale at RIPT began today, Tuesday, May 31, 2011, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

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